Bertrand Duchaufour is currently with L'Artisan Parfumeur, where he works on bespoke perfumes and other special projects (including a projected series of spendy one-off fragrances). He has also created perfumes for the regular L'Artisan line, but he is not, strictly speaking, the "house nose", and he will reportedly continue to create perfumes for other brands, and according to L'Artisan they will continue to work with other perfumers as well. Duchaufour worked at Créations Aromatiques (Symrise) before moving to L'Artisan in 2008.

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Simply from my direct contact with raw materials. That, I’m sure of. And I’m still evolving. I don’t perfume in the same way at all. And besides, wait a minute! There’s also the fact – and that’s enormous – that before setting up at L’Artisan Parfumeur I used to work with a certain quality of raw material and a certain quantity of that quality. If I had 150 euros [per kilo of oil] to work with, that was monumental! Usually, when you make a product for Dior or L’Oréal, it’s going to cost you between 60 and 80 euros. Now, some products cost between 400 and 600 euros. That changes everything! You don’t make the same perfumes! — Bertrand Duchaufour on his changing style, from Bertrand Duchaufour speaks of L'Artisan Parfumeur Nuit de Tubéreuse: an Exclusive Interview at Grain de Musc.